SpaceX Falcon 9 Heads for Heaven With Dragon Capsule Mockup SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral this morning, bearing unmanned mockup of the Dragon Capsule intended to...
Everest: Climbing Over Corpses to Reach the Summit One of my favorite books of all time is Jon Krakauer’s white-knuckle ride about climbing to the summit of...
Black Vinyl Rituals and the Madness of Crowds You know, if you’d asked me yesterday, “What fascinating topics do you expect get all excited about tomorrow?” I...
Rash of Egyptian Shark Attacks Three snorkelers have been injured, and a German woman killed, in shark attacks off the Egyptian resort town of...
Murder in Celebration: Axe Bludgeoned in a Time of Artificial Innocence For Autumn, the lampposts lining the streets of downtown Celebration, Florida belch out leaf-shaped confetti onto the sidewalks to...
Pro-Wikileaks Hackers Take Down Swiss Bank Late Monday evening Swiss time, a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack by hackers took down the website of PostFinance, the...
Carbon Nanotubes Are the New Blacker Than Black The third-best thing about NASA’s announcement that it’s created carbon nanotubes one-nanometer diameter to make a paint blacker than...
Making Child Abuse Facebook Famous You see…I am what they call a “fantasy-prone personality.” While dodging “suggestions” from people who, on most days, wisely...
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale – The Santa Flick From Hell Holiday movie fare being typically comprised of the intellectual equivalent of a DIY trepanning kit, most of us would...
Teddy Roosevelt, Monster Hunter? Did you know Theodore Roosevelt came this close to hunting a South American plesiosaur? “This” close being not at...